The biggest misconception about Coldplay is that they are boring. Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion may sometimes have made music you don’t like (possibly they have always made music you don’t like) but they have never been boring. Quite the opposite.
From the off, Coldplay have been restlessly inventive, a band always seeking to switch things up for their next move, pondering over how it might be bigger and bolder. How else do you go from being a group who started off making Jeff Buckley-esque fragile indie ballads to a band who got Noel Gallagher, Beyoncé, Brian Eno and soul legend Merry Clayton to appear together on the same track?
As their acclaimed Glastonbury 2024 headline slot showed, the quartet are well-stocked in euphoric singalongs for the masses, but there are also some curious, arty diversions tucked amongst those soaring stadium anthems. With the band's tenth album Moon Music (full title Music of the Spheres Vol. II: Moon Music) due in October, let's look at the story so far...
